Home Page for David Drysdale


What will hap more to-night, safe 'scape the king!
Lurk, lurk.
(William Shakespeare, "King Lear"; Act III Scene VI)

In a lurking-place I lurk,
One with the sullen dark.
(Theodore Roethke, "All the Earth, All the Air")


Technical Writing

"High-Quality Software Engineering", a book about software engineering. Available as:

“Never knowingly under-engineered”

Translation table for UNIX debugger commands (gdb, dbx, adb, sdb).

Beginner's Guide to Linkers.

Translation rosetta stone for scripting languages.

A blog about setting up and tweaking a Mac OS X laptop (mostly for future reference if I ever have to reinstall from scratch).

Another blog, including some more technical entries:

Review of, notes on and references related to Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind Of Science".

A Tutorial Introduction to Guile.

An article investigating similarities between C++ and Lisp.

Software Projects

“Our almost-instinct almost true: what will survive of us is code”

Qlockwork time-tracking software for Windows.

xwindiff, a graphical diffing tool for X.

A utility for converting between 32-bit floating point numbers and their IEEE representations.

A Game (Tesserax).

replot, a PDE plotting tool.

A noddy stick figure animation program.

An applet to test attentional blink.

A MineSweeper game for PalmOS.

PalmOS RoboRally game.

Experimental changes to Maxima to provide a feature that translates Maxima expressions into presentation MathML.

GridFont assistant applet.

Miscellaneous

White noise audio files.

Photo.net page.

Photobox page.

Vanity links.

The Vent.

(PDF, 2648KB) Homoclinic Bifurcations in Partial Differential Equations.

Spherical harmonics reference page (also a A4 PDF)

English grammar reference page


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